A New Mapp of AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALE

Description:

Issued in: Cosmography and Geography / R. Blome. -- London : S. Roycroft, Printer, 1682. Plate [23], precedes p.423 Undated and unchanged except for new dedication: Dedicated To the Rt. Hon. Anthony Earle of Shaftesbury, Baron Ashley of Wimbourne St. Giles, and Lord Cooper of Pawlet. Coat of arms bears 2 family lines (otherwise identical with above issue). Wagner 400; Tooley 26 (Plate 40),27,28; Leighly 55; Mercator Society (Plate); UCB; Burden 397 (Plate 397). Designed by Mousieur [Nicolas] Sanson Geographer to the French King, and Rendred into English, and Illustrated by Richard Blome By his Majesties Especiall Command. Unchanged reissue of Sanson's 1650 "Amerique Septentrionale" as regards California, except that a tiny vignette of a deer is shown in the north of the island. Engraved by: Francis Lamb Sculp (lower left).

Creator:

Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

California as an island--Maps and North America--Maps

Theme:

Imagery

Rights:

Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

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